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    Haider Le Pen, Fini ve diğerleri: Batı Avrupa'da radikal sağın yükselişi
    (Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2004) Vural, Hasan Saim; Özkazanç, Alev; Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi
    ABSTRACT Since the early 1980s, West European democracies have witnessed another growing tide of right-wing radicalism. Since then, some already existing radical right-wing parties have gained significant success and have penetrated mainstream politics, while some newly founded ones emerged on the radical right-wing political scene. This recent wave, as compared to the previous ones observed in the 1950s and 1960s, has become more widespread and alarming. Political scientists have been interested in this wave from the beginning, and a rapid- growing literature has emerged. Nevertheless, although very rich and detailed on related cases, this literature has proved to be scattered and ineffectual to answer the leading questions of the debate. Many answers have been put forward, though not providing a consensus on the basic questions; such as, how these parties could be labelled, exactly what kind of politics they represent and what kind of challenge they pose to the liberal democratic orders, which conditions favour their success and failure, etc. However, almost every work published since the 1980s has shared the common premise that these parties have enjoyed an ever growing success. The present study is designed to question the actual power or efficacy of these parties in their related democracies. Various radical right-wing parties in fourteen democracies are examined. The research is predominantly based on the rich 268resources offered by the existing literature, especially on the detailed case studies. The parties in concern are described and analyzed in terms of origin, leadership, ideology and strategy, policy orientation, electoral history, voter support and the social composition of the support base, relationship with other actors on the political scene, etc. This study has concluded that, in most democracies, these parties do not represent any significant success. Even in those cases where they hold better levels of political representation and endurance, their voter support can change dramatically, and their acceptability for public office is much more problematic. Consequently, this thesis argues that, the perception of the ever growing threat of radical right is a result of the recent weakness of the liberal democratic status quos, as well as the actual power of the parties in concern. 269